March 19, 2008

Quadraspec, TriMedx partner in strategic service initiative

Both Indiana-based firms are past recipients of Techpoint's MIRA award and are recognized as innovation leaders in their industries.

"Quadraspec's technology improves patient diagnosis outcomes, both in terms of reliability and speed," said Ned Campbell, TriMedx chief operating officer. "The partnership ultimately means TriMedx can further improve patient outcomes throughout the health-care provider value chain."

TriMedx will provide national service support for the Inspira System, a revolutionary, high-throughput diagnostic tool. The system includes a sample handler as well as the world's first dual-channel detector, which provides for both label-free and traditional fluorescence detection. The innovative platform provides numerous advantages over existing technologies, including high multiplexing capabilities, quantitative assays, high throughput, short run times, and label-free detection. The collaboration with TriMedx promotes additional emphasis on speed, reliability and unmatched analytical throughput for Quadraspec's diagnostic customers.

"TriMedx is an ideal partner," said Richard Aderman, Quadraspec president and chief operating officer. "We are especially pleased with their record of service quality and their commitment to the customer - attributes which align strongly with our vision to become the premier diagnostics technology platform. It is also significant that we collaborate with other Indiana companies to promote the growing base of biotech capabilities in our state." 

About Quadraspec Inc.

Quadraspec's patented SDI™ label-free detection technology is changing the face of diagnostic medicine. Built around research done at Purdue University, Quadraspec enables the rapid analysis of up to 100 unique tests on up to 1,000 unique patients per hour. Quadraspec's fully integrated, multiplex-capable diagnostics platform enables high throughput, label-free, highly sensitive bioassays and diagnostics. With market disruptive costs to researchers and laboratories and applications from discovery through development, Quadraspec aims to become the next generation gold standard diagnostics platform.

About TriMedx

TriMedx LLC (http://www.trimedx.com) is a national collaborative service provider that offers unequaled health-care equipment services and medical capital asset management to health-care providers and other partners in health care. TriMedx is recognized as an industry leader of clinical engineering programs and services and receives accolades for its commitment to quality and customer service. TriMedx is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ascension Health.

About Purdue Research Park

Purdue Research Park (http://www.purdueresearchpark.com) encompasses 725 acres in West Lafayette, Ind., and is home to the largest university-affiliated business incubator complex in the nation. Within the park, 148 businesses, of which more than 94 are high-tech, employ more than 3,000 people. The Association of University Research Parks recognized Purdue Research Park for Excellence in Technology Transfer in 2005, and the park received the organization's Research/Science Park Company of the Year Award of Excellence in 2004.

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